From Ex's Trash To King's Treasure Novels & Stories

I'm representing the Rosa family at a mafia trade summit when we're ambushed on the road. In the chaos, I get separated from the only bodyguard assigned to protect me. When I finally overcome all hurdles and make it home alive, I see him step down from the vehicle that attacked us. The Soldati line up before him respectfully. "Mr. Marco, if you like Leonora, you could just tell the Don. Why pretend to be Viviana's bodyguard? You had us chase Viviana into the dangerous Neralis Rainforest so that Leonora could appear at the trade summit. She's been missing for three days now. Shall we send our men to look for her?" Marco Santis furrows his brows, and his fingers clench around a ring carved with the Santis family's crest. "Leonora has always been insecure about being an illegitimate daughter. I haven't secured my position as heir. If I tell my father now, I'm afraid he'll never agree. As for Viviana, she's capable. She'll be fine." I realize Marco tried so hard to stay by my side for my illegitimate sister, Leonora Rosa. She's the one who drove my mother to her grave. It feels like someone had dug a hole in my chest and left it open to the cold wind. I force myself to stand and head to my father's room. "Papa, you wanted me to marry the dying heir of the Santis family. I accept."

Kimberly Reed was killed in her past life by her husband and his mistress. even in death she was tormented by them with only Christopher Carter fighting for her dignity. She is reborn and what will she do with the knowledge she has?

Grace thought she had finally found a family when the wealthy Wells family adopted her. To win their love, she became everything they wanted—obedient, perfect, and the ideal substitute for their lost daughter. The only person she truly believed cared for her was her boyfriend, Lucas Marino. But her world shattered the day the real daughter returned. Overnight, Grace was cast aside, treated as nothing but a shadow of someone else. Lucas, the man she trusted most, revealed his true heart—he had only ever seen her as a stand-in. Heartbroken and betrayed, grace got drunk and an got in an accident. The accident brought her face-to-face with Ethan Marino—Lucas’s uncle and the powerful head of the Marino family. But when she first met him, Grace mistook Ethan for a poor, struggling man… and helped him without knowing his true identity. The story which started as misunderstanding slowly blossoms into something deeper. But falling in love with her ex’s uncle is the last thing Grace expected—and the most dangerous choice she could make. Torn between family scandals, hidden identities, and a forbidden romance, Grace must decide: will she risk everything for the one man who sees her worth?

Amy died at the hands of the man who once swore to love her. But fate gave her a second chance: she awakens ten years younger, before marrying Warren—the husband who ruined her life and massacred her family. Now, her mission is clear: revenge. In her path appears Simon, the only man Warren could never defeat. Rich, dangerous, and irresistibly charming, he agrees to Amy’s shocking proposal: marriage. With Simon by her side, Amy is ready to strike back. But between betrayal, forbidden attraction, and a dangerous love triangle, Amy must decide if her rebirth will be ruled by hatred—or by the unexpected fire Simon awakens in her.

Elizabeth lived as a recluse, even though she was a beautiful girl from a good family, she seemed to have a curse that attracted people who only wanted to take advantage, there was nothing left for her but to lie about her origins. A billionaire heiress is now a simple and poor girl with a man from a good family who she thought was good, but by the irony of fate that changes. which ends up throwing her into the arms of a man she has never met and never even thought about loving.

Kaia Gold’s carefully planned life falls apart on the eve of her wedding. Desperate for freedom from her family’s control and happily celebrating her last night of spinsterhood, she impulsively marries a mysterious stranger she meets at a lounge. But that’s the least of her worries when she catches her fiancé's shocking betrayal with her nemesis. When Kaia tries to annul her flash marriage, she discovers that this partnership could offer her independence while granting him freedom. She proposes they stay married for six months, a proposition Blaze accepts, setting strict terms and insisting on a formal contract. Blaze Black, the aloof heir of the influential Black family, once lost his childhood love to an accident and is forced by his family to marry the adopted sister. Haunted by his past, Blaze sees his marriage to Kaia as a way to silence family pressures, using Kaia as a substitute for his lost love. To Kaia’s shock, her fresh start lands her a job at Blaze’s company, where he insists, she also serves as his assistant with a mouth-watering offer she cannot refuse. Sparks fly as Kaia’s fierce spirit chips away at Blaze’s guarded heart, while their close quarters ignite an attraction. Soon, Kaia’s journey grows complicated as she faces envious rivals, family secrets, and a haunting realization of her true heritage. As Blaze’s feelings intensify, their marriage of convenience deepens, uniting them against betrayal and unveiling Kaia’s place as the true Silver heiress—and the woman destined to claim Blaze’s heart.

On a dark burning night, I watched my father and his mistress kill my mother but they claimed it was an accident. I plotted to take revenge once I got married but on my wedding day, my stepsister stole my groom and my father forced me to marry my groom’s uncle instead. He was known as the Demon Rafael. His name brought fear to all those who dared to whisper it. He was the man even kings feared. I expected scars and cruelty. I expected to be killed on sight. Instead, I found dangerously enchanting emerald green eyes. And a man who carried a much darker secret beyond the eery rumors about him. He thinks I’m weak. My family thinks I’m disposable. The capital thinks I won’t survive the night. They’re all wrong. Because I didn’t marry Rafael Skull to be his obedient wife. I married him to destroy my father. To reclaim my mother’s legacy. To take back the throne they stole from me. But in a palace where every woman is fighting to bear the next Alpha King… And every smile hides betrayal… The most dangerous game isn’t politics. It’s falling for the demon who might ruin me. Will I survive the dangerous palace of wolves and avenge my mother or will the Demon Rafael consume me with his darkness?

#Second place Winner hopwriter short storystorm " Don't say anymore word than you already have, don't..." I stuck a finger out at him, sauntering away on my heels when a hand wrapped itself around my arm. Breathlessly he whispered, "You know that I do love you and...fine, what exactly was I supposed to do?" "Protect me and stand up for me. That is what you do for someone who you claim you love!" ************ Out to spite her ex-boyfriend after he had broken up with her on her birthday, Daphne slept with a stranger who turned out to be his uncle while trying to rebuff his words that she was unwanted by others. Was she ready for the wild chase that followed when he found out years later that she had been pregnant with his heirs and that she had been hiding the truth all this while? Faced with the ruthless CEO, known as the beast, who wasn't ready to back down, Daphne does everything possible to make sure her kids wouldn't be taken from her, but what happens when love gets in the mix of it all? Would she be able to conquer these weird feelings and give in her all amidst her scars? And with how deadly he turned out to be? And faced with her ex who still wants her back, what choice is she going to make?

Fiona finds her husband cheating on her for yrs with his secretary. Heartbroken, she's wasted alone in bar. Her husband keeps calling her. His billionaire boss:"Pick it up. Let him hear your moan. Tell him he's fired and you're mine..."

Humiliated and abandoned on her wedding day, Breanna Jones is left alone with a huge debt and the possible loss of her family’s bakery. Then Elijah Washington, her ex’s billionaire boss, makes her an offer. "Marry me and all your problems will disappear." Having no choice, she agrees. Being married to Elijah Washington is nothing she expected. He’s cocky and frustratingly unreadable but she finds herself starting to feel things she shouldn’t. A budding romance begins to blossom between them. When she discovers his true plans for her family's bakery, she feels betrayed and used but Elijah won't let her leave and is willing to do anything to keep her by his side even if it means breaking the contract. Breanna must decide whether to protect what’s hers or risk everything for a man she never thought she could love.